How to Use extravehicular in a Sentence

extravehicular

adjective
  • The suit also has added features such asa seals and pressure valves to support extravehicular activities.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Friday's extravehicular activity was the third for the crew.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, to ensure the crew’s safety during extravehicular activities, the suit also has added seals and pressure valves.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 May 2024
  • Officials will also use the mission to test space suits, known as extravehicular activity suits, for astronauts on the lunar surface.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2026
  • On the second day in space, the crew will prepare for the space walk, which will include readying their sleek new extravehicular activity suits designed by SpaceX.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
  • China also recently announced its goal to put astronauts on the moon and unveiled the garb that will allow for lunar extravehicular activities.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The company spent about two years designing the first generation of this extravehicular activity spacesuit, an upgrade from its current flight suit.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
  • Rubio will serve as extravehicular crew member 1 and will wear a suit with red stripes, while Cassada will wear an unmarked white suit as extravehicular crew member 2.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Then, the crew receives a realistic task that requires them to slip on their spacesuits for extravehicular activity (EVA).
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • All four crew will be wearing new extravehicular activity suits since the entire Crew Dragon will be vented of its atmosphere and subjected to the vacuum of space.
    — Richard Tribou Orlando Sentinel (tns), arkansasonline.com, 1 Sep. 2024
  • China this week revealed that two of its astronauts had conducted a secretive space walk around the Tiangong space station, marking the second extravehicular operation over the last three months.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And on top of that, future astronauts will need more oomph for more—and more difficult—extravehicular physical activity than today’s explorers do, to stay alive and functional on another world.
    — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
  • SpaceX has unveiled its extravehicular activity (EVA) suit for spacewalks.
    — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 6 May 2024
  • Another goal of Artemis 3 is to have the astronauts test out new spacesuits built for extravehicular activities (EVAs) on the lunar surface.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 June 2026
  • Neil Armstrong took this photograph of Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the moon.
    — Michelle L.d. Hanlon, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
  • SpaceX sees the spacewalk, otherwise known as extravehicular activity, or EVA, as a crucial milestone in its goal of sending people to other planets.
    — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is pictured during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the moon.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2016
  • The wearable robots attached to the space suit assist an astronaut in performing extravehicular activities (EVAs).
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2023
  • Williams and Wilmore brought extensive experience in EVAs—or extravehicular activities—to this mission.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike other suits the company has produced, like the extravehicular mobility unity (EMU) and the Apollo suit, these new spacesuits are built with adaptability in mind.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The problem begins when the astronaut's space suit is pressurized for a spacewalk (more technically called an extravehicular activity, or EVA), which makes the flexible fabric of the gloves hard and stiff.
    — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2010
  • Artemis 3 astronauts will also have the opportunity, to some extent, to test new extravehicular activity (EVA) spacesuits designed for missions to the lunar surface.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 June 2026
  • During the 4-hour, 10 minute extravehicular activity, both astronauts attached tethers to their suits and worked with the cradle that supported the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, the first of its kind to launch.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 29 May 2018
  • Those concerns apparently grew in the hours that followed, prompting NASA to issue a follow-up statement to its EVA (extravehicular activity) cancellation, indicating that bringing astronauts home early is on the table.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Astronauts will then be able to conduct extravehicular activities, or spacewalks, to maintain, repair or even upgrade the observatory, as NASA astronauts did with Hubble five times between 1993 and 2009.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Spacesuit stowage — Flight engineer Zena Cardman photo-documented and prepared for packing components from the station's extravehicular mobility units (EMUs, or spacesuits) that are slated to return to Earth on Russia's Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025

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